Kinda. What I'm after is a way to contribute functionality (screens, menus, tabs) to a shell of a WebApp in a standard way. For example, let's say I have a web shell that provides all the basic facilities of an online store. Now, I want a way for development teams to contribute to the application. For example, a team might contribute a clothing plugin, or a book plugin. Each plugin would define how it extends the the shells navigation, menus, and tabs.
I'm almost asking for a component model within the web app component model. Does that make sense? Besides eclipse and emacs, I think Microsoft's Management Console works in this way. Not sure if I've made this idea clearer or muddied the waters. ;-) On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 10:13:56 -0500, Chappell, Simon P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James, > > I got the impression from the original post that he was asking about some kind of > IDE that allows you to specify web application behaviour and then have a WAR or EAR > file magically created with no thought necessary to how it was generated. This is > truely a cool idea, but I can think of nothing that does that today. > > Simon > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: James Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 10:07 AM > >To: Struts Users Mailing List; Rob Evans > >Subject: Re: An Eclipse Like WebApp Framework? > > > > > >Apache Struts provides just what you want ;) That's about as > >generic as you > >can get. > > > >What type of 'specific' functionality do you want bolted on? Have you > >looked at AppFuse? > > > > > > > >-- > >James Mitchell > >Software Engineer / Open Source Evangelist > >EdgeTech, Inc. > >678.910.8017 > >AIM: jmitchtx > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Rob Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 10:58 AM > >Subject: An Eclipse Like WebApp Framework? > > > > > >> Folks, > >> > >> > >> I'm wondering if anyone has thought about developing an Eclipse like > >> WebApp framework. The idea is to provide an application shell and a > >> contribution (think plugin) mechanism. Contributions could include, > >> tabs, navigation, help, etc.. > >> > >> Why bother you say? I've found that in a corporate environment with > >> large teams that it's hard to keep applications structured > >and without > >> structure development costs go up. L&F and application flow > >guidelines > >> are okay, but they are typically expensive to enforce. It seems to me > >> that the plugin structure of eclipse, and emacs before it, go a long > >> way in providing core services to developers while at the same time > >> enforcing structure. > >> > >> Anyone know a WebApp framework that does what I've described? Anyone > >> else seen this problem or am I alone in this concern? > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
